Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buzzes are so entrenched in the lighting system that the noise will not end, there is another solution available. A small expenditure of library funds could easily transform the grating buzz to a soothing tinkle of bells...
...Audrey." Scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories have tried for years to build a machine that will "understand" human speech. First step was to transform spoken words into dancing patterns on a cathode-ray tube. Now they have built "Audrey" (for automatic digit recognition), an electronic telephone girl that recognizes ten spoken digits, 1 through 0. Hooked up to an ordinary telephone, Audrey listens to a spoken telephone number and matches its digits against sound patterns in her memory. Then she flashes numbered lights to show what she has heard. Audrey can be tuned to one man's vocal...
From the moment Strongman Mohammed Naguib proclaimed a revolution in Egypt, he began a furious fight against the nation's constitutional inertia. There was not much time. He had to transform Egypt before cowed politicians could make a comeback, and a fickle public got too impatient waiting for results...
...motive force behind the Schools Committees of the Crimson Key and the nation's Harvard Clubs has been a subtle blend of two strands of chauvenism. The first is local pride, which students bring to College with them and transform into Southerners Clubs and Chicago cliques; the second is Harvard pride, which graduates carry out of Cambridge and store up in great quantities in their local Harvard Clubs...
...itself, it would necessitate by its very nature interference by Government. The potential for good or catastrophic, especially catastrophic, would be so great that it would force Congress to pass stringent legislation, to regulate labor as a state does a public utility. This would virtually climinate collective bargaining, and transform both parties into little more than vast lobbies, pressuring the government for favorable decisions. In short, such a merger would fuse politics and industrial relations, as they are fused in Europe...